It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea — Francis Parker Yockey Copy Share Image
The world is waiting for men with vision - it is not interested in mere pictures. — Charles Webster Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Let experience solve it. To listen to mere speculation in such a case were criminal. — George Washington Copy Share Image
The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history. It is human history. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Sabbath rest is more than mere abstention from physical work; and, therefore, must include worship and Scripture-reading. — Joseph Hertz Copy Share Image
Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice ... You expect too much of human… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Nonviolence of the strong cannot be a mere policy. It must be a creed, or a passion, if 'creed' is objected to. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Who gives is positive; who receives is negative; still there remains an immense class of mere passives. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
That is mere sentimentality that lies abed by day and thinks itself white, far from the tan and callus of experience. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
Among the scenes which are deeply impressed on my mind, none exceed in sublimity the primeval [tropical] forests, ... temples filled with… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The history of the Internet is, in part, a series of opportunities missed: the major record labels let Apple take over the… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
A person who wills to have a good will, already has a good will--in its rudiments. There is solid satisfaction in knowing… — William Ernest Hocking Copy Share Image
One important idea is that science is a means whereby learning is achieved, not by mere theoretical speculation on the one hand,… — George E. P. Box Copy Share Image
Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired (by passionate devotion to them) produces such an ecstasy that the buying… — A. Edward Newton Copy Share Image
Those who have succeeded in attaching or detaching their minds at will have succeeded in Pratyahara, which means gathering towards, checking the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The mere fact that so many who espouse such far-right views and beliefs still exist in this society is incarnate proof that… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
Ancient worship . . . does truth. All one has to do is to study the ancient liturgies to see that liturgies… — Robert E. Webber Copy Share Image
We can have intellectual individualism and the rich cultural diversities that we owe to exceptional minds only at the price of occasional… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
Many writers struggle with exposition in their novels. Often they heap it on in large chunks of straight narrative. Back story –… — James Scott Bell Copy Share Image
More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars. Yes, an end to this brutal,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The act of willingly subtracting from one's own limited store of the good and the agreeable for the sake of adding to… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
If animals are no longer quite outside the moral sphere, they are still in a special section near the outer rim. Their… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
What do you think deja vu is for?”. Face it, you even want to talk to that girl in the elevator. But… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
You know that the population is of this planet is now ten times greater than it was in the ages preceding capitalism.;… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Man is neither mere intellect not the gross animal body, nor the heart or soul alone. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Man's words are mere breath, but the word of the Lord is spirit and life. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The mere presence of PASSION within you is all you need to fulfill your DREAMS. — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
The relief that is afforded to mere want, as want, tends to increase that want. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
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